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Item Resistance to Autocracy and Media Censorship: A Political and Poetical Reading of Cartoons(Department of English, 2008) Sharma, Govinda PrasadCartoons are the unique genre of art and the key ingredients of modern journalism. With use of bold and expressive lines, exaggerated image and symbols, allegorical indicationand deft illustration theyprovide pleasure anddelight to its observersandalso deliver hard-hitting, poignant socio-political and cultural messages often through laugh-out-loud humour and blistering satire which are comprehensible even to those who can not read thus performing a function of self-expression unmatched by the verbal communication. Political cartoons, usually called the cartoons of ideas and opinions take serious issues of public concern and work as an intellectual arm so as to protest the opponents and make sharp commentary on the government and public personalities. Martin Luther used political cartoons as visual propaganda during Protestant Reformation and defeated the Catholic opponents. Nepalese political cartoons attacked and resisted king Gyanendra's autocratic regime and the censorship imposed by his government more powerfully than the newspaper articles, editorials and critical writings. Since the cartoonists were the acute observers, they traced out the then reality in a very skillful touch of humour and satire thereby strongly advocating in favour of democracy and press freedom.Item Subaltern Consciousness in Vijay Tendulkar's Play Sakharam Binder(Department of English, 2010) Bhandari, Dilli RamTendulkar's Sakharam Binder represents the consciousness of peasant workers as it explores the saga of subaltern character Sakharam Binder,who through his benevolent charity for other subaltern caste off women--Laxmi and Champa and a Muslim, Dawood by giving them shelter. They are all are peasant workers.But as Gramsci and Spivak argue, there is the politics behind speaking or working for the subalterns, which suggests the central and serious issue about the liberation of the subalternity exist for centuries. Sakharam is a man who does not care about ethics and morality, and professes not to believe in "outdated" social codes and conventional marriage traditions followed by elite groups. Sakharam who on the one hand pretends as if he is giving a very benevolent support to the subaltern people, but behind the bush he exploits sexually and expresses deep-rooted oppressive power of the patriarchy and elitism over the subaltern women. However, to a greater extent, this play can be important space for critical discourse about subaltern studies.